Mount a Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 share and backup to your Linux computer or server

This procedure is for mounting a Windows XP share on linux

I created a share on my XP laptop. The username is James Cunningham, there is no password for the share.

Create a directory for the mount point in the command line.

• $sudo mkdir /media/spcshare

Next command line,

Note: the username is the username of the windows share. In my case it is the default username

$mount.cifs //192.168.1.101/spcshare /media/spcshare  -o username=James Cunningham

In this example,  I copy the share to an external hard drive connected to the linux computer.

I used rsync to copy the share to the external hard drive

$ sudo rsync -r --delete /media/spcshare/spd1 /media/"My Book_"/

 To unmount

sudo umount.cifs /media/spcshare

This script is for mounting my XP Windows computer share and using the rsync command to copy the share to my Linux unit

#!/bin/sh

#this is a bash to mount a windows xpshare and rsync to linux box

sudo mount.cifs //192.168.1.100/JCshare /media/spcshare  -o username=guest

sudo rsync -r --delete /media/spcshare/cherryone /home/jcxpdesk/

sudo umount.cifs /media/spcshare

exit

This file has to be executable to work. webmin is a great unix admin software for editing shell script files. See webmin.com